Between 2015 and 2020 the Labour Party was riven by allegations that the party had tolerated antisemitism. This important book by one of Britain's leading historians of anti-fascism gives a more detailed account than any yet published of what went wrong in Labour.
One of Britain's leading barristers argues for a world in which the law should play a smaller part in all our lives.
The book explores the alarming rise of far-right parties across Europe and globally, highlighting their unprecedented electoral success since 1945. It examines the growing influence of right-wing street movements that attract large crowds and the increasing incidence of terrorist attacks targeting Jewish and Muslim communities. The narrative suggests a troubling regression to fascist ideologies, prompting a critical analysis of contemporary political landscapes and the societal implications of these developments.
COVID-19 has given many people a window through which they can see how easily life can turn for the worse, and how quickly they might end up needing the help of a legal aid lawyer like David Renton.
No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to no platform fascists emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited exception to a left-wing tradition of support for free speech. The book shows how no platform was intended to be applied narrowly, only to a right-wing politics that threatened everyone else. It contrasts the rival idea of opposition to hate speech that also emerged at the same time and is now embodied in European and British anti-discrimination laws. Both no platform and hate speech reject the American First Amendment tradition of free speech, but the ways in which they reject it are different. Behind no platform is not merely a limited range of political targets but a much greater scepticism about the role of the state. The book argues for an idea of no platform which takes on the electronic channels on which so much speech now takes place. It shows where a fascist element can be recognised within the much wider category of far-right speech. This book will be of interest to activists and to those studying and researching political history, law, free speech, the far right, and anti-fascism. It sets out a philosophy of anti-fascism for a social media age.
Provides an introduction to the Congo. This book covers its history, from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury across the region in the 19th century, to the Western sponsored murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, and also the war since 1997. It pays attention to the importance of economic production for social organization throughout the country.
The classic text on the history and theory of fascism, revised for the twentieth anniversary of its first publication
Cyril Lionel Robert James was the great intellectual of the African revolution.
This book tells the story of the National Front and the campaign by Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League which stopped it.
A bold thesis arguing that fascism is not the main enemy today - but a new and dangerous alliance of the right.